EDC 484 Agenda: Class 03: How do I Improve My Teaching?We will meet in Chafee 104.

Learning Goals

• Plan what we are teaching when we return from break, and contribute a shared resource for our wikispaces.
• Synthesize our needs, the needs of our schools, and the needs of our students to develop a professional development goal and plan.

Due Tonight (By Midnight)

• Post Agenda/HW Grid 2/22 (W)

Activities

• Before class starts. With your partner:
  • Add your 2 cents - How does this activity attempt to engage you?
  • Share your hard earned knoweldge. - Share some of what you've already learned.
• Sharing & Brainstorming
  • What did you learn this week?
  • Explain some (naked) science.
    • Use our Meeting Room to record concepts as you listen to the news story.
    • Pick a concept
    • Create a (visual) explanation
    • Teach us
• EDC 484 PD Plan Synthesis Activity.
  • Resource: Observation Form for Student Teaching (Handout)
• Planning
  • Complete your planning calendar for the week after break
  • Be prepared to describe your upcoming week to us.
  • When you finish your calendar,
    • Work on the YouTube Scavenger Hunt to think of ways to engage your students on your wikispace.
    • Explore other teachers' wikispaces. What features have they developed to engage students?
      • Example wikispaces:
        • Bergmann Science
        • Global Biology
  • Sharing: Describe your upcoming week: Topic & Most Interesting Activity.
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Due Saturday (By Midnight) or

• RJ03 - Describe an inquiry assessment.
• Complete the IPlan activity we started tonight and post to True Outcomes by Feb 24

Reminders

• No class next week!